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basic driver is just that, the basic driver,as long as you can see a desktop that's about all it douse.sadly most of the unix os iv messed with so far cant even support a 20 year old video card and don't have drivers for them.they support the video hardware in question in software mode only.long story short install drivers and sadly its a real princess to do,im still working on that topic my self after a week of being at it

This can be the last line in a three line triplet of xrandr --newmode <modename> <frequency & pixel setting numbers> setting a new mode line on the first line, xrandr --addmode default <modename> and then the third line with both gamma and mode settings.